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Thank you for the reply and the suggestions. The furnace we have now is a Carrier high efficiency. All they did was open up the back and look at it. They reset the safety mechanism to make the furnace start blowing heat and waited to see if the safety feature would kick in which it did after a...

Thanks for the link. Yes I know, the tech guy said it was by Lennox. The second guy came and he also said the furnace needs to be replaced. He offered the same furnace as the first guy but at a lower price so I decided to go with him but I'm now wondering if maybe I should have taken a little...

I woke up this morning to a cold house, the furnace was on but it was nonstop blowing cool air. I called a heating guy and he replaced a part but said by furnace is unsafe and setting off a carbon monoxide signal on his electronic gadget. He said the furnace needs to be replaced and under no...

Thanks very much for the suggestions

The outside light fixture was replaced on the brick wall of the house and now there is a hole between the new fixture and the brick? How do I seal it? Here are a couple of pics to show what I'm talking about:

We got it done. Once the fan was lowered away from the ceiling I knew to what wires the new light is to be connected. The only difficulty we ran into was attaching the light's bracket to the ceiling. The metal box in the ceiling had one side going further into the ceiling than the other...

Yes I now about making sure there's no power going through. We haven't done anything yet, I'm just asking questions to see if this is something we'd be able to do. There's only one normal light switch that turns the ceiling fan on. The fan has pull chains that control what's on - fan, light or...

That's what I was thinking but the old fixture I want to replace is a ceiling fan, it has an additional blue wire. Am I correct in saying that the blue and black wires from the fan are both connected to the same wire in the ceiling? And if so would this be the ceiling wire I connect the black...

Yes the light is controlled by a switch. I agree with you bud, I don't want to do anything unless I know exactly what to do.

I want to install a new light fixture in my kitchen so that it matches a light fixture that's already there (kitchen has 2 light fixtures on ceiling). My brother said it's easy and he would do it even though he's never replaced a light before and knows nothing about electrical wiring. We...

Does the code only apply to chimneys that are in use?

I have two chimneys with crumbling brick, one needs to be rebuilt from the roof up and the other to be repaired. The guy who came to give a quote said that the chimney which needs to be rebuilt can be rebuilt to 18 inches above the roof which would make it shorter than it is now, it is used by...

Both the outer and inner pane slide open. The photo shows the inner window part way open

I don't know what sort of windows they are. When I put my hand up close to them I can feel a draft.

It only happens when there is a big difference between the weather outside and inside and it's the window pane closest to the outside that gets condensation. If I open the inner pane the condensation disappears. The new furnace distributes warm air more evenly than the old one and it saves...